REPCRT ON OFFICER'S DOTIES IN REGARDS TO OSWALD'S MURDER
C. N. DHORTTI - #U76
Sunday, November 21*, 1963, about 9:30 AK, Capt, Fritz directed Dets. J. R.
Lea velle , L. C. Graves and myself to go to the fifth floor jail and bring Lee
Harvey Oswald to his office. We brought Oswald to Captain Fritz's office,
where he was interrogated by Capt. Fritz, Hr. Kelly of the Secret Service,
Mr. Sorrels of the Secret Service, and Mr. Holmes of the Postal Department.
They talked to Oswald until about 11:10 AM. Chief Curry came into Capt.
Fritz's office when the interrogation was going on. At the end of the in-
terrogation, Capt. Fritz gave me the keys to his car, and told me to park
it along the door from the jail office in the basement. I went to the base-
ment and unlocked Capt. Fritz's car and proceeded to drive the car into -the
driveway. There was a plain black police car in front of me, and the officers
who I could not recognize, drove this car up the ramp to Main Street exit. I
was backing Capt. Fritz's car in front of the jail office, and was having
trouble getting through the news reporters that had jammed the ramp driveway.
While I was backing, up, I was turned around in the seat looking back to keep
from running over the reporters. Capt. Fritz came out of the jail door,
followed by Det. J. R. Leavelle handcuffed to Oswald. Det. L. C. Graves
was to Oswald's left. They were walking to the car while I was still moving
the car back. Capt. Fritz opened the right rear door of the car I was driving,
and I noticed a man move quickly across the right rear of the car. This man
moved to Oswald and shot. I recognized this man as Jack Ruby, a man I had
seen a few times before in previous years. When Ruby shot, Det. Graves grabbed
the pistol Ruby had in his hand. The crowd of reporters closed in with the
police officers, and I jumped out of the car, and went into the jail office.
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The officers had Ruby, and Det. Leavelle was being unhandcuffed from Oswald.
Capt. Fritz directed me to return to the basement and have the Supervisor
Officer to obtain the names of everyone in the basement. I went to Capt. C. E.
Talbert and gave him Capt. Fritz's message. I then moved Capt. Fritz's car
out of the driveway where the ambulance could get to the jail office. When
the ambulance came, I rode in the ambulance with Oswald to Parkland Hospital.
I stayed at Parkland Hospital until Oswald was pronounced dead. Det. C. ¥.
Brown and I went with Oswald's body to the morgue where we waited until Dr.
Farl Rose made his preliminary pictures of the body prior to the autopsy.
I turned over Oswald's clothing to Dr. Earl Rose, and returned to the Homicide
Office in the City Hall approximately 5*30 PM. I stayed in the Homicide
Office with Mr. Stewart and went through the property of Oswald. I made
copies of letters and identification from Oswald's property for Mr. Stewart.
T also made copies of all the affidavits that had been taken by the Homicide
Office and Sheriff' s Office for Mr. Sorrells of the Secret Service.